How-To: Fix your Dell Mini 10(1010) to have the Correct Display with Ubuntu 9.04

So I recent found a steal of a deal at a local Wal-Mart on a Del Mini 10 (1010)  supposed to be priced at 399, it was mis-marked for 296 so here I am with a Dell Mini 10 (1010). I throw the (1010) in there because Dell made another Model called the 10v and the 1010 gets confused with it and vise versa.  The main difference is the graphics.   The 1010 has the GMA500 which is very hard to get to work with alot of things driver wise. The issues are slowly getting worked out. The GMA 500 is a very superior graphics chipset it just lacks in support for drivers.

The 1010 comes with Windows XP loaded.  But I wanted to be able to use this at work with some sort of Organizational package / To-Do list and contact organizer.  And at work, I do alot of work with IBM Servers that run AIX 5.3 and what easier way than to have a Netbook that already nativity run Unix and has all my work related items on it..  So I loaded Ubuntu 9.04. undenounced to me I at the time I did not know that Intel did not play well with *INUX OS’s.  But though ton of trial and error here is what I have came up with to fix the display issues that Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).

— Fixing Resolution on the Dell Mini 10(1010) and 12 With Ubuntu 9.04 —

You Need to have the 2.6.28.13-generic or 2.6.28.13-lpia Kernel else you will get DRM Errors after reboot. Please update to the latest Kernel before performing these procedures.

First lets check to make sure you have the right Kernel version before we proceed.
From the Terminal:
uname -a
This will display your Kernel version. If it is 2.6.28.13 or Higher You are done. And continue down below. If it is not then do the following steps:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Reboot
go back into a terminal

uname -a
Make sure your Upgrade happened. If it did and you want to get rid of your old Kernel you can do:
sudo apt-get autoremove
If not, no harm done, it wont hurt anything to leave it other than eat up about 100meg of space. Just continue on with the Guide.

—Continue on From here if you have the Correct Kernel Version—

From the Terminal:
Add this to your repository
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-mobile.list
add these 2 lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
then ctrl+o (which saves it)
Then ctrl+x (To Exit)

Now you need to authenticate the keys
gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –search-keys ubuntu-mobile
Press 1 and Enter
gpg -a –output /tmp/pub.asc –export C6598A30
sudo apt-key add /tmp/pub.asc && rm /tmp/pub.asc
Now that your Ubuntu-Mobile Key is added do the Following.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-psb
A Reboot May be required after the Installation.

I Hope this Helps everyone out. (this will also work for the Dell Mini 12)

** I Have Loaded Ubuntu / Kubuntu and Xubuntu and I have verified that this works on those flavors of Ubuntu. ***

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